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SOCIETY FOR SUPERSEDING THE NECESSITY OF CLIMBING BOYS
[12th report of the Committee. 1827]Society for Superseding the Necessity of Climbing Boys, by encouraging a new method of sweeping chimneys, and for improving the condition of children and others, employed by chimney sweepers. Instituted on the fourth of February, 1803.
London: printed by C. Baldwin, and sold for the Society by Messrs. Baldwin Cradock and Joy, 1827.
16 p. ; 23.0 cm. (8°)

'Price One Shilling.' Contains the twelfth report of the Committee. The Society solicited the invention of devices to attempt to secure the reprieve of the climbing boys. George Smart designed an apparatus for the purpose in 1803 improved by Joseph Glass in 1828.

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